My brief relationship with Andy Damrell, a most impressive and cosmopolitan figure, ended with his recent, sudden and most mysterious disappearance. Andy is, to my knowledge, the original author of an incomplete manuscript, which I can but assume he intended me to complete and publish. THE AUTHOR is my attempt to carry out Andy's request, and as I now see it, his mission - an attempt to prevent a nuclear catastrophe.Andy's book CHEAP SHOT began during...